Week of January 25th

Honorable Mention

Aquaman # 5 (DC Comics)

The Mighty Thor #10 (Marvel)

Teen Titans # 5 (DC Comics)

Voodoo # 5 (DC Comics)

...and now for this weeks All-Stars!

Astonishing X-Men # 46

Company: Marvel

All-Star Crew of Presenters: Writers: Greg Pak, Artist: Mike McKone, Letterer: VC’s Joe Caramagna, Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg, Editor: Nick Lowe

All-Star Summary for Choice: This book is...still astonishing. The art is awesome and the story continues from lat issue with Cylops trapped in an alternate reality where mutants won the war and now care for the humans...at the expense of the lives of other mutants from other realities.

This book has awesome art and the story is a fresh departure from the norm and brings me back to the days of reading Exiles. Everyone in the book is familiar, but we don’t know who they are. Just when we figure it out and think we have someone pegged...another twist emerges that leaves my jaw dropped on the floor...and my brain anxiously waiting for the next issue.

All-Star Quote of the Book: “We’ll see about that”

Daken: Dark Wolverine # 20

Company: Marvel

All-Star Crew of Presenters: Writer: Rob Williams, Artist: Alessandro Vitti, Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit, Colorists: Chris Peter & Rachelle Rosenberg, Editor: Nick Lowe

All-Star Summary for Choice: I’m a fan of the presentation that comes full circle. This book begins at a certain point...and ends at that same point, but with some really good story telling in between which is pivotal to discern the difference between where it begins, and where it ends. The art is very good, especially in comparison to the last artist that was on the book.

Daken is without his healing factor, but not without his attitude that always gives it cause to operate. He believes FBI Agent Donna Kiel and he share a destiny together...and so begins a great story that is as close to being a love story as Daken is likely to get.

All-Star Quote of the Book: “You are a psychopath who has attempted to elevated herself above other psychopaths by catching them.”

Fantastic Four # 602

Company: Marvel

All-Star Crew of Presenters: Writer: Jonathan Hickman, Artist: Barry Kitson, Letterer: VC’s Clayton Cowles, Colorist: Paul Mounts, Editor: Tom Brevoort

All-Star Summary for Choice: This book is epic if you’re like me and love huge, galaxy-deciding space battles. The Kree are making their move after the Supreme Intelligence has been resurrected by Ronan the Accuser, but many have stepped up to oppose them. The Human Torch returns from the Negative Zone in command of the Annihilation Wave and the Inhumans bring the city ship Attilan into the fight. With the Avengers defending Earth and the Fantastic Four joining the space battle...it simply isn’t enough, so Reed Richards calls on the ultimate helper.

Spectacular in scope and grand in it’s visuals, this book was stunning from cover to cover. The space scenes are very detailed, yet remain clean and fluid.

All-Star Quote of the Book: “The Celestials have arrived”

Justice League # 5

Company: DC Comics

All-Star Crew of Presenters: Writer: Geoff Johns, Artist: Jim Lee, Inkers: Williams, Hope, Irwin & Weems, Letterer: Patrick Brosseau, Colorists: Alex Sinclair with Gabe Eltaeb & Tony Avina, Editor: Brian Cunningham

All-Star Summary for Choice: It’s the Justice League versus Darkseid!!! I really shouldn’t have to say anymore than that. Jim Lee’s art is outstanding and brings this beat down...er, fight...to life. Geoff Johns is one of the industry’s premiere writers and proves it again when we are treated (on page two!) to something of a Superman/Flash race, as they try to outrace the Omega Beams! Not only that, but all hail the return of Darkseid to the absolute badass of the DC Universe villainy wherein we are given good reason why the mightiest heroes fear the mention of his name! This is the type of book you read...and then read again, and again, and again.

All-Star Quote of the Book: “Your arm is broken you idiot”

Justice League Dark # 5

Company: DC Comics

All-Star Crew of Presenters: Writer: Peter Milligan, Artist: Mikel Janin, Letterer: Rob Leigh, Colorist: Ulises Arreola, Editor: Matt Idelson

All-Star Summary for Choice: Deadman, Madame Xanadu, Zatanna, John Constantine, Shade the Changing Man and Mindwarp are the type of team that deal with those threats the regular Justice League would be...well, out of their league trying to resolve. Magic and mysticism are the roads they travel, and the journey is a hard one. In this issue, they must save the Earth from the destruction caused by the Enchantress, separated from her human host.

The art in this book is simply spectacular. I spent more time looking at the visuals than I did actually reading the book. The action is great and the ideas presented for the effects of magic are fresh and intriguing. A city overrun by a tsunami of obsolete computers? Simply wild!

All-Star Quote of the Book: “A storm of rotten teeth. Going by their stench, they could be poisonous.”